Yanien werd ontvoerd uit haar thuisland.

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Yanien werd ontvoerd uit haar thuisland. © Maarten Sprangh

Yanien uit Apeldoorn werd als kind ontvoerd voor adoptie: Ik ging kapot van verdriet

Help ons bij de zoektocht naar de waarheid. Het is de diepste wens van Indonesische adoptiekinderen die tussen 1973 en 1983 illegaal naar Nederland kwamen en nu hun biologische familie willen vinden. Ze zoeken financiële steun voor een rechtszaak tegen de Nederlandse staat. „Als ik mijn biologische moeder niet had gevonden, dan was ik nu waarschijnlijk dood.“

Missing child found in Punjab

The boy had been playing with other children when he went missing

A child, who went missing from north Delhi's Lahori Gate when he was three years old, was traced to Punjab and reunited with his family after six years by the Delhi Police's Crime Branch, police said on Friday.

A reward of Rs 50,000 had been declared for any information leading to his recovery, they added.

The investigation into the case was transferred to the Crime Branch by the Delhi High Court.

Transgender Mom of 9 Children: “Most Meaningful Thing She’s Ever Done”

Posted on June 22, 2018by WACAP

Finding out who we are is the story we’re all writing. It’s that journey of identity and becoming that Kathryn reflects on, as a parent of 9, as a person who’s transgender, and as a mom beloved.

By Kristin Kalning

Kathryn Mahan remembers when she knew she’d been born into the wrong body. “I was four years old, and in kindergarten,” Mahan recalls. “There was an event that happened with a little girl named Madeline, and I realized that I wasn’t like the other kids.” That’s because Kathryn, now 61, was born Harold Lamont Mahan.

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Picture for representational purpose only.Picture for representational purpose only.

INDORE: The woman and child welfare department will hold a fair on June 24 to help issuelesscouples, who want to adopt a child, and sensitise them about the adoption process.

In the fair, parents, who want to adopt child, will be told about how to make registration on Central Adoption Resource Authority (www.cara.nic.in) and upload documents including birth, age proof, marriage registration, residence proof and family photos to qualify for the adoption.

“Through the fair to be organised in Jawara Compound at Lions Club’s office, we will help issueless couples to follow due process further to adopt an orphan or abandoned or surrendered child,” divisional joint director Rajesh Mehra told TOI.

Image used for representational purpose By Express News Service

KOCHI:The state government on Wednesday submitted before the Kerala High Court that children in Janaseva Sisubhavan, an orphanage in Aluva, were sexually abused and suffered physical torture. Besides, 62 kids went missing from the centre.

Meanwhile, Janaseva sought permission to withdraw the petition against taking over the children’s home and the court dismissed the petition as withdrawn. The state also made a revelation it apprehended children being brought to the state from outside states by Janaseva Sisuhavan, an orphanage at Aluva, for the purpose of human trafficking and for other allied activities.

A full-fledged investigation is needed to unearth the truth in this regard. Aluva Janaseva, which is the petitioner in the case, is a non-governmental organisation running two children’s homes - one at Mekkad, Ernakulam, for boys and another at Aluva for girls. Out of the 104 children, 60 are boys and 44 are girls.

The Social Justice Department submitted that Aluva Janaseva failed to give an explanation regarding the missing of children from the home. The institution has no registration contemplated under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.

In France, the official adoption service of Seine-Maritime (Normandy) has publicly said that gay couples are "deviant" and therefore should also adopt "deviant" children, such as children with disabilities or psychological problems. Discriminatory statements that cause a stir among our southern neighbors.

It was Pascale Lemare of the adoption service who made the bold statements on the local radio France Bleu. According to her, gay couples are "deviant in terms of social and biological norms". "If they provide children with deviant problems in their adoption plans… If they have open expectations, then they can indeed adopt children," it said. An interest group has already filed a complaint and the government of President Macron spoke of "impermissible discrimination".

Four gay couples with adopted children

Correspondent Frank Renout states in 'The Morning' that the gay people in France themselves are not surprised. Marie-Claude Picardat of the French Association of Gay Parents says the advisory boards that decide on adoptive children are sometimes homophobic, rejecting gays and lesbians as adoptive parents.

Same-sex marriage was legalized in France five years ago. Since then, according to Picardat, only four married gay couples have adopted children.

At present, prospective adoptive parents have to go to civil or family courts to get the final go-ahead after completing all other formalities related to adoption, and the whole process often takes years.

At present, prospective adoptive parents have to go to civil or family courts to get the final go-ahead after completing all other formalities related to adoption, and the whole process often takes years.(Photo for representation)

An inter-ministerial panel headed by external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj has cleared a proposal making district magistrates the final authority to clear child adoption cases, in a bid to quicken a process that is often hit by year-long delays, three government officials aware of the development said.

At present, prospective adoptive parents have to go to civil or family courts to get the final go-ahead after completing all other formalities related to adoption. But with pendency high in civil and family courts, people familiar with the adoption process say it is not easy to get a date for hearing.

“The Sushma Swaraj-led group of ministers has cleared the union women and child (WCD) ministry’s proposal to amend the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 and incorporate a clause allowing courts of district magistrate to pass the adoption order,” said one of the officials cited above.

Pornstar and Bollywood actor Sunny Leone has found herself in a spot of bother after her husband Daniel Weber on Sunday decided to mark Father’s Day by posting a semi-naked photo of his family including that of their adopted daughter Nisha.

Sunny Leone

In the photo posted by Weber (whose identity on Instagram is @dirty99) posted the seemingly naked photo of their adopted daughter with the caption, “This is Fathers Day!!! The greatest love one can imagine !!! Thank You @sunnyleone for meeting Nisha Kaur and Falling in Love for both of us !!! You are always the one who knows Best. She is everything and has stole my heart forever !!!! Xoxoxo Thank You !!!! (sic)”

In the photo (see below), Leone appears to be unclothed. The child also seems to be without any clothes on with only Leone’s hands covering the little girl’s modesty. Weber, for his part, is seen lying next to both of them shirtless. It seems the photo has been taken by another individual.

The post evoked such nasty responses that some of them can’t even be reproduced here. They included vulgar comments for Leone targeting her for her porn business. There were also ‘pedophilia’ jibes aimed at Weber. Among the ‘saner’ comments, one user manal.hq wrote, “shame of India.” Another user sarcastically commented, “when u have addiction on being naked.” “Why are you naked?” asked one user. Many also wondered if the person clicking the photo was also naked. The overall theme of the public outrage was that they had subjected even a little girl to public exposure wearing little or no clothes.

Pain of mother put behind bars as infant given out for adoption By Sunday Standard Reporter | Published Sun, June 17th 2018 at 09:43, Updated June 17th 2018 at 10:06 GMT +3 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Share on Facebook Share on Twitter [Photo: Courtesy] IN SUMMARY Woman put in remand for six months without child She was forcefully arrested and falsely accused of neglecting her child A seven-day-old baby was forcefully abducted from its mother and later placed for adoption in what experts have called a cruel contemplated and organised child theft. In the case that is one of the highlights of a report presented to President Uhuru Kenyatta, the mother was forcefully arrested and falsely accused of neglecting her child. The child was placed in a children’s home on grounds that he had been abandoned in Kibera on May 17, 2014 from where he was rescued by a Good Samaritan. ALSO READ: Unwanted babies can be given up for adoption At the home, the child was given a different name from his own. According to the report, the mother was then separately put in remand for six months without her child. “This was against the remand regulations for mothers with young children, who are never separated with their young ones,” the report says. The team termed the case an “abduction, kidnap, forceful and fraudulent”. “This mother was still having precious colostrum breast milk, probably still bleeding from child birth when her baby was forcefully taken away from her, causing serious health trauma to child and mother, which may take many years for her (mother) to heal,” says the report. During the period the mother was in remand, the child was labelled an abandoned child at the children’s home for six months. The experts said the six months were meant to provide the legal window for children to qualify for adoption. Police letter After the six months were over, police at Killimani Police Station wrote a letter indicating that efforts to trace the parents had proved fruitless and that no claims had been made to that date. “By the time the mother was released from remand, the child had already been branded as abandoned and declared free for adoption,” the report says. This happened despite the fact that the the home where the child was placed knew about the whereabouts of the mother, a matter that later ended in the courts. The experts’ investigation found that contrary to police reports, the baby was forcefully taken away from the mother. The mother was frog-matched to the chief’s camp and reported the alleged neglect of the baby who was only seven days old. It was from the chief’s camp that they were taken to the Kilimani Police Station for a night before the baby was forcefully taken away from the mother and into the home. The report says police letters on the case were all false, indicating that the whereabouts of the mother were unknown when, in fact, she was in their custody. “They (police) also stated that the child was abandoned while they forcefully abducted the child from the mother’s hands and handed over the child to the home,” said the report. ALSO READ: Adopted? Judge just gave hope Six months On further follow-up, the experts discovered that the mother was charged with child neglect, taken to court and thereafter taken to Langata Women’s Prison for six months. “The mother kept asking for the child but she was denied access and also the police declined to give her any information on the whereabouts of her baby,” the report says. The mother later followed up the adoption matter in court with a view to stopping it. The court ordered for DNA tests to establish maternity, which confirmed that indeed the child belonged to the mother in question. The ruling was yet to be made by the time the report was handed over to the authorities. In another case, a foreign citizen approached his embassy seeking to travel with a child outside the country during the period of the moratorium based on a custody order. The foreigner approached the Australian High Commission applying to be allowed to travel with the child. The investigators, however, found that the director of the orphanage, where the child was committed to for care and protection, chose to have the child under his personal custody without following the due process, only to come later and seek leave from the court for travel with the child outside of Kenya. The child was admitted to the orphanage on October 27, 2013 having allegedly been abandoned. But the experts established that the applicants had irregularly acquired a birth certificate and a passport for the child, giving the child their last name against the law. They concluded that the custody order was unprocedurally obtained and contrary to the law, which only allows change of name after the adoption order is given.

Read more at: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001284410/pain-of-mother-put-behind-bars-as-infant-given-out-for-adoption

How some foreigners sneak out children By Sunday Standard Reporter | Published Sun, June 17th 2018 at 00:00, Updated June 16th 2018 at 21:43 GMT +3 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Foreigners with guardianship orders over Kenyan children have been spiriting them away under the guise of seeking medical attention, a new report on child trafficking says. Courts and children officers have also been cited as facilitators of this form of child trafficking done in defiance of a 2014 moratorium against moving Kenyan children away from the land of their birth. “Most of the applicants for sole custody and movement of children from the country are based on treatment of serious medical conditions but none of the allegations were supported by any medial reports,” says the report Progress on Implementation of the Moratorium on Inter-County and Resident Adoptions dated December 2017. ALSO READ: Woman sues hospital over pre-surgery hunger session The report also says applicants provided unreliable reports to support adoption. In one case, revealed an applicant who claimed to have known a child for 12 years yet the child was only aged 10. In another case, a father to a child is said to have died in 1995 yet the child was born in 2002. “This raises concern over accountability, dismal and casual approach to the children’s well-being, welfare, safety and security by duty managers,” says the report. In its report, the team calls for action against officials named in various court cases of the the intricate wave of child trafficking in the name of adoption of Kenyan children. According to the analysis of the 206 prospective adoption cases, Sweden had the highest number of prospective adoptive parents coming to Kenya. It was followed by the US, Germany and Italy. From 63 cases analysed from the courts, the committee found that 44 cases were filled in the high courts in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu after the moratorium of November 26, 2016. Of these, 20 children were placed for inter-country adoption after the moratorium, contrary to the Cabinet decision. “This means some children are declared free of adoption when they are not adoptable,” the report says. In all the 49 cases, the report says, there was no evidence of tracing done prior to declaring children free for adoption. The report questions the reason for offering all “available’ cases for adoption to other countries yet there were local parents willing to take up the children. The team found that some foreigners were offered more than one child within a span of two years, while the the list of Kenyans waiting to adopt children was as high as 440. The team attributed this to the fact the the foreigners paid more for adoption.

Read more at: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001284375/how-some-foreigners-sneak-out-children